Latest Hard Drive reliability report from BackBlaze

Backblaze provides online backup services. The core of their service is an enormous collection of hard drives of various makes, capacities and models. Backblaze tracks the reliability of the hard drives in their systems, and publishes their findings yearly.

This year’s report shows that HGST (Hitachi) drives are still the most reliable, but also shows substantial improvement in Seagate drives over previous years.

About jrivett

Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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